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OUR VALUES AND COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING   

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct; and is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.    

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.                                                                                                                       

OUR WORK IN ETHIOPIA   

Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.                                                                                 

TEAM PURPOSE: Oxfam has been intervening in Gambella Region since 2014 and its main areas of intervention are WASH program with the integration of gender, protection and safeguarding. In response the call for expression of interest by UNHCR/RRS Oxfam has been selected to implement and lead the WASH activities in the entire Gambella 7 refugee camps Including new selected Lock Dong refugee centre, there for the profession pursue and ensure the delivery of basic WASH services which meets an international standard.

JOB PURPOSE: Public Health engineering (PHE) Officer is responsible to be an active part of the Oxfam GB Water and Sanitation team in close coordination with the Public Health Promotion (PHP) team and to strengthen Oxfam's response to the South Sudan refugees in Gambela region by providing effective management and high quality technical planning and implementation inputs for schedules of work and monitoring against agreed indicators

Duties & Responsibilities:

• To lead on the implementation of the hardware components of WATSAN interventions including the construction of water systems (ground water or surface water), protection, abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution for new systems or rehabilitation of existing systems as well as construction of the most appropriate form of sanitation systems, in consultation with the beneficiaries and line ministries (includes excreta disposal, refuse disposal, vector control and drainage).

• Support PHE senior officer  in providing technical support to all project related to public health engineering in his /her lead role in planning, designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to ensure high quality programmes

• To liaise closely with the Public Health Promotion Team throughout the implementation of the Public Health Engineering activities ensuring an integrated approach at all stages

• Together with other team members monitor the on-going interventions and make recommendations to OGB regarding any unmet needs

• Ensure that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and gender issues. In particular to promote the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of the work and to ensure that Oxfam’s Programme is an opportunity for peace making, rather than community division.

• To support procurement and logistics planning in relation to BoQs, budget provisions and the requirements of the donor and occasionally organise local purchasing.

• To provide technical recommendations for changes in priority activities or implementation strategies and/or further interventions according to the humanitarian context and gaps in assistance, including if necessary, assessment of emergency needs in new areas leading to the development of further project proposals for donors.

• Provide advice on technical soundness, appropriateness and feasibility on all public health/WASH activities to programme management prior to the commitment of resources.

• Provide technical approval of all engineering designs calculations, technical drawings, specifications and BoQs for all public health/WASH interventions as part of quality control, ensuring that it meets both international and Oxfam GB public health minimum standards.

• To work closely with the camp technical teams, ensuring that all works are carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and culture and take gender issues fully into account. This includes the introduction of mechanisms to enable women to participate in decision making around public health engineering issues.

• Carry out field visits on a regular basis to field offices based on documented work plans to review the quality of engineering works at incremental stages, i.e. interim payments, final payments etc.

• Write field visit report to provide feedback on quality and engineering works underway to further advise programme management of any corrective measures to be taken

• Support PHE assistant and PHE teams in identifying capacity gaps and assist in planning of relevant trainings to address the gaps

• Developing bill of quantities and computer aided designs with AutoCAD, Water CAD and ArchiCAD according to recommended engineering standards.

• Ensure project resources in the construction sites are utilized effectively and efficiently. 

• Ensure work completion certificates are issued up on completion of activities and payment certificates are prepared for approval. Payment requests are prepared and submitted for payment as agreed in the contract.

• Contribute to regular reports adhering to OXFAM reporting formats at intervals to be decided by the PHE senior officer /WASH Coordinator

• To take on any other appropriate programme activities as agreed.

• To be familiar with and abide by the NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, SPHERE standards, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol).

• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights. 

• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff safety health and wellbeing principles.

• The post holder expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol, including safeguarding.

Other 

• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights. 

• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff safety health and wellbeing principles.

• The post holder expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol, including safeguarding.

• Depending on the situation, the post holder may be asked to perform other tasks as requested by the Manager.

Job Requirements:

Essential 

• BSc Degree in civil or water engineering, construction management from a recognized university/college or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that can bring added value

• Relevant experience of 6+ years as engineering officer or construction supervisor, at least some of which should be related to water supply and sanitation in Emergency IDP and affected host community out of which preferable 2 years of experience working in INGO organization. 

• Proven experience of coordinating large public health and/or WASH programmes. It is desirable that some of this should have been in emergency relief programmes.

• Experience with public health promotion and integration with engineering activities.

• Demonstrated experience of integrating gender and diversity into emergency response programmes and longer-term strategies.

• Good understanding of WASH programming in refugee response programming 

• Experience leading strategy development and implementation monitoring in collaboration with staff

• Good assessment, monitoring and evaluating and planning skills to enable programme design and delivery.

• A proven record of mentoring and capacity building of teams in complex contexts.

• Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to build good relations both internally and externally

• The ability to present concise reports, sometimes at short notice, reflecting the problems and possible solutions for particular situations.

• Diplomacy, tact and administrative skills in order to work with people at managerial and, on occasions, senior government levels.

• Proven influencing and negotiating skills with internal and external audiences and confident representation skills.

• Analytical and strategic planning skills.

• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure and meeting deadlines in changing situations

• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.

• Able to communicate in English and a local dialect would be preferable

• Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including, in refugee response setting would be an added advantage

• Skills and experience of using AUTO-CAD, WATER-GEMS and other relevant software.

• Good knowledge of supervision techniques

• Applicant with knowledge of local language is preferable. 

Desirable

• Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including, in refugee response setting would be an added advantage

• Skills and experience of using AUTO-CAD, WATER-GEMS and other relevant software.

• Good knowledge of supervision techniques

• Applicant with knowledge of local language is preferable

How to Apply

Interested applicants can apply using the below information:

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